Timeframe: 3ish months ago before discovering trp.

After a 5 year end to my LTR - yep, complete beta shit show as to why it ended but now see the light and everything I did wrong - I was quickly trying to get back into the game and got a girls number from a party.

Set up date - mini putt/food (I paid RIP). Good time and started applying stuff from Art of Charm. We decide to walk in a park and had so many opportunities to escalate it is not even funny. I realized that I was a big pussy and did not even recognize IOIs (she showed me her ass tattoo). Date ends in hug.

2nd date - food/drinks and adult arcade -more signs there of interest, leaning on me, keno, good time in general. Bill was split but yet again failed to escalate.

Cliff: she mentioned her ex a few times and was fresh out of a relationship too which kind of held me back - but now realizing that shit does not matter at all. I would ignore it or kind of call her out on it so she would realize I dont care about her past problems. Also I asked her to do fwb and she agreed but changed her mind a week later. I nexted her after that but feel after discovering trp and my mistakes, I could easily plate her!!

Questions:

  1. Do you think escalating would have been successful?
  2. Should I hit her up or carry on when I see her at a mutual frienda event in November

I know abundance mentality would be most of the responses which I am working on - but I woke up and thought about the whole situation even though it was almost 3 months ago. Read side bar recently but still going through recommended books. I owe a lot to trp though and I have a complete different view on life/women. Just looking for advice i